Alone I am alone, in spite of love, In spite of all I take and give —— In spite of all your tenderness, Sometimes I am not glad to live. I...
Red Maples In the last year I have learned How few men are worth my trust； I have seen the friend I loved Struck by death into the dust, And fears I n...
Debtor So long as my spirit still Is glad of breath And lifts its plumes of pride In the dark face of death； While I am curious still Of love and fame...
The Wind in the Hemlock Steely stars and moon of brass, How mockingly you watch me pass！ You know as well as I how soon I shall be blind to stars and ...
XI. Yet my fond love I never told, But kept it, as the miser keeps, In his rude hut, his hoarded heaps Of gleaming gems, and glittering gold： Gloating...
XII. Nor was it I alone, to whom Those words had been as words of doom, By some malicious fiend rehearsed： Another one was standing by, With princely ...
I. He stood where the mountain moss outspread Its smoothness beneath his dusky foot； The chestnut boughs above his head, Hung motionless and mute. The...
II. And who by kith, and who by name, Is he, that lone, yet haughty one？ By his high brow, and eye of flame, I guess him old Ottalli's son. Ottall...
III. And thus from varying year to year, The youthful chief has lingered here； Chief！——why is he so nobly named？ How many warriors at his ...
IV. And this was he who, standing there, Seemed as an image of Despair, Which agony's convulsive strife, Had quickened into breathing life. The wr...